Facebook Interns Are Retarded
Posted by Justin Dupre on August 29th, 2008I can’t even begin to count how many times I’ve heard this phrase. But you know what? You should be thankful of this.
Who does the Facebook team of interns disapproving your ads consist of? Mostly, a bunch of clueless American college drones looking to scrape up some cash with an easy job. They sit in their comfy chair and click approve or disapprove, sometimes seemingly frivolously, randomely, and without much intent to actually carry out their tasks by not actually visiting our landing pages and then clicking disapprove.
But you know what I say to that? Thank god it isn’t one of us approving the ads!
If they put the time and money into getting their FB interns trained properly for this approval mess, I guarentee some would see some major drops into what passes as a reasonable ad. Then, they’d probably know what the fuck we are up to, too. I’m sure a few of the interns jot down notes on ads they see, get off work, and then reproduce them on their own, but we can assume enough to say they are dimwits for probably 99% of them that have no idea what Affiliate Marketing is. Train them, and they’ll know some of us are banking thousands of dollars a day on these silly booby pictures.
So, stop bitching and just keep resubmitting your ads. Eventually, you’ll get a retard that works in your favor and approves an ad that you know in the first place would never get approved if they actually read their Facebook Intern handbook.
Funny…
I heard from a few ppl if you submit your ads in the wee hours of the morn you’re more likely to get it approved, obviously the help is slacking or whatever. Not double-blind scientifically tested but worth a shot perhaps
They are the worst. I have to submit 50 ads a day to get a few approved. Don’t even get me started on international only offers. If you go to them from the US it redirects to another offer and they say that the landing page isn’t relevant. Always have to direct the link to a us offer or just a content site and then change it after they approve it. It’s a pain in the ass.
@Chris Mac
More ads will get approved on weekends when the Interns don’t want to work.
@John
You shouldn’t be so negative about it. Creating redirects ain’t that hard, and you probably know why some of your ads are being disapproved. I agree that they should have someway of viewing ads in other countries when they aren’t targeted to the US, but facebook doesn’t want to train these interns to use a proxy. You know you’ll have to cloak it yourself to get it to work, so do it. If not, I don’t mind the lowered competition if you want to drop out.